English Breakfast tea

A packet of English Breakfast tea

English Breakfast tea is a black tea blend usually described as full-bodied, robust, and/or rich, and blended to go well with milk and sugar, in a style traditionally associated with a hearty English breakfast. It is the most common style of tea in Britain.

The black teas included in the blend vary, with Assam, Ceylon and Kenyan teas predominating, and Keemun sometimes included in more expensive blends. Common brands of English Breakfast tea (which do not always include the term itself in the branding) include Typhoo, PG Tips, Twinings, Tetley, Yorkshire Tea, Dilmah and many other brands.

Origins

Accounts of its origins vary. Drinking a blend of black teas for breakfast is indeed a longstanding British custom. The practice of referring to such a blend as "English breakfast tea" appears to have originated not in England but America, as far back as Colonial times.^[1].

See also

• Irish Breakfast tea
• Full Breakfast

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